SPANISH TIME ZONE- JAKE SABIN

The reason that Spain go one hour ahead of Portugal comes from a ministerial order that Franco's government enacted the March 7, 1940 and which was considered the desirability that, from that time, the national schedule Marchase agree with those of other European countries more politically minded.

Thus Francoist Spain happened to have the same time as Hitler's Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Fascist Italy, as well as those European countries occupied and / or allied with them , leaving to belong to the same time zone as Europe West as the UK and Portugal.

In that same ministerial order also provides in article five which eventually will point to the date you had to reset the normal time , which never came, despite having elapsed since a whopping 73 years and a few governments of a different political party.

"We sleep almost an hour less than the World Health Organization recommends,'' the commission said.

"All this has a negative effect on productivity, absenteeism, stress, accidents and school drop-out rates.''

It said that following the "wrong clock" explained why Spaniards tended to eat, leave work and go to bed later than their European neighbours.

"Our timetable is determined more by the sun than by the clock. We eat at one o'clock in the afternoon and dine at eight, according to the sun, but the clock says it is three o'clock and 10 o'clock," the text said.

It added that jumping back an hour would bring Spain "into line with Europe in many respects in which we currently differ".